Chemicals, not conveyor belts, make industrial manufacturing go round. How can the way you store them impact your operations? Resins. Paints. Medical ingredients, ingredients such as alcohol used in the manufacture of food products like luxury chocolate, or the chemicals used to clean up after them: when it comes to storing any of these substances and more, the word “responsibility” is key. They’re not all hazardous. Some simply deteriorate in the wrong conditions. Others could cause significant harm to your people or the environment. In all cases, guidance exists to advise you on the safe storage of these substances, but...

What have years spent helping businesses achieve data compliance taught me about chemical storage legislation, and what can you learn from my experiences?  For many years I worked in a different industry, guiding businesses safely through the legal implications of general data protection. Data protection is easy to overlook, but it mattered a great deal to my customers because they were responsible for keeping the data they held on their clients safe, and in a time when cybercrime is commonplace, their communication channels were just as vulnerable as the doors and windows to their physical premises. Chemical compliance is a...

A Safety Data Sheet (SDS), formally known as a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), is designed to provide the necessary information required to help users to protect the health of humans and the environment. Users are categorised as companies or individuals who use a substance, either on its own or in a mixture, in their industrial or professional activities. A Safety Data Sheet is intended for both the workers who handle the substance and for those responsible for safety. The format of Safety Data Sheets are defined in the REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation & restriction of CHemicals) Regulation and as...